scholarly journals Herbal Medicine Research in Taiwan *Appropriate person among the authors to be in contact for any further information on the status of CHM research in Taiwan and for opportunities to study and conduct research in the field of TCM in Taiwan

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Kaphle ◽  
Leang-Shin Wu ◽  
Nai-Yen Jack Yang ◽  
Jen-Hsou Lin
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Traditional Herbal Medicine ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
Medicine Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
The Status

Of all the countries in the world, why did you choose Taiwan to pursue your study? It is a question that I (comments of the first author) have answered a thousand times. My first visit to a laboratory at National Taiwan University opened my eyes to the possibilities of herbal medicine research, especially in the area of veterinary medicine. It became my ambition to link the knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda from the Indian subcontinent and their integration with other systems of medicine, including Western medicine (WM), to achieve the concept of Sustainable Medicine, firstly for animals and then for humans. The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has implemented a technology development program to quickly establish the key technologies, and this is a moment of opportunity for Taiwan's traditional herbal medicine industry to upgrade and transform itself. This paper, initially intended to be a student's narration, has evolved into a multi-author treatise on the present state and likely future scenario of herbal medicine research in Taiwan.

scholarly journals Ironies of Laboratory Work during Ghana's Second Age of Optimism

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Droney
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Medicine Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Medical Infrastructure

While Ghana is touted as an African success story, the young employees of a large herbal medicine research center in Ghana make sardonic and cynical remarks about the state of science in contemporary Africa. They decry the improvisation that characterizes doing science on the continent, point out what is lacking from their laboratories, and mock the ways in which their work appears embarrassingly peculiar. They claim that their labs are “not modern” and ironically refer to dissatisfying aspects of their work as “African science,” a second-rate version of science done elsewhere. This is what Achille Mbembe has called negative interpretation, where social life is understood primarily in the ways in which it differs from an assumed Western standard. These jokes reference an earlier period in Ghanaian history, when African science formed part of the project of postcolonial nation building. Scientists of the independence period constructed the scientific and medical infrastructure of Ghana to both provide for the needs of its people and to represent the status of modern Africa to the world. The apparently incongruous relationship between the cynicism of these jokes and the strain of Afro-optimism that has recently surrounded Ghana indicates a sustained shift in the identity politics of African professionals since independence. Their jokes signal their attempts at disentangling their identities from the project of African modernity, and at positioning themselves as scientists working in the context of Ghana.

scholarly journals Global Problems of Mankind: The Status and Prospects of Solving

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (513) ◽  
pp. 478-484
Author(s):  
O. V. Ptashchenko ◽  
◽  
D. Y. Arkhypova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
The Status

The article examines the main global problems of the modern world space, defining the main tendencies of overcoming the crisis and the further path of human development. Globalization indicates the general nature of most processes meaningful to mankind. Modern humanity represents an indivisible system of economic, political, social and cultural ties and interactions, which is significative for the unity of its future destiny. Informatization became the basis of globalization, reflecting the current level of technology development. Global problems are problems affecting all mankind, influencing the course of economic development and social sphere, also ecology and political stability. These problems require international cooperation, since none, even a highly developed State, is able solve them on its own. The number of hungry people in the world has increased over the past few years. Now every ninth person in the world is starving every day, suffering from a lack of nutrition. Both the food scarcity and hunger are among the greatest threats to the overall health of the human population exceeding malaria, tuberculosis or HIV. Responsibility for the planet should begin with responsibility for the country, because the crisis of a separate country complicates the world situation in the political aspect; ecological and resource crises jeopardize environmental equilibrium and complicate the problem of resources on a global scale; an economic crisis leads to social consequences in other countries.

scholarly journals Uji Klinik Keamanan Ramuan Jamu Penurun Kolesterol

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Zuraida Zulkarnain ◽  
Agus Triyono ◽  
Danang Ardiyanto ◽  
Saryanto Saryanto
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Cholesterol Lowering ◽  
Medicine Research ◽  
Bowel Movements ◽  
Clinical Signs And Symptoms

Research on the safety of Jamu (herbal medicine) formula is important to guarantee its use in community. The Jamu Saintification development program has been resulted a cholesterol-lowering herb containing of 7 plants. This study aimed to determine the safety of the cholesterol-lowering herb. This study is a phase one of clinical trial with a pre-post group design, a single arm, involving 50 subjects with mild hypercholesterolemia without any complications and comorbidities. The intervention was conducted for 28 days at the Hortus Medicus Herbal Medicine Research House (RRJ) in 2014. Outcome parameters included clinical signs and symptoms, liver function laboratory tests (SGOT, SGPT), renal function (ureum, creatinine) and routine blood counts (hemoglobin, leukocyte, platelets, hematocrit). Subjects were requested to boil the herb everyday and drank it twice a day. The data were analyzed descriptively and statistically using SPSS. The results showed increasing in bowel frequencies of 92% subjects and abdominal pain in bowel movements of 34% subjects. These effects were still in a normal range and can be tolerated by the subjects. The paired t test analysis showed no differences in average laboratory parameters on day (D)-14 and D-28 compared to the baseline (p > 0.05). The cholesterol-lowering herbal medicine does not change the function of the liver, kidneys and blood, with mild side effects of increasing the frequencies of bowel movements and stomachaches.

Final Report of the Key Technology Development Program for a Next-Generation High-Temperature Gas Turbine

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sato ◽  
Y. Kobayashi ◽  
H. Matsuzaki ◽  
S. Aoki ◽  
Y. Tsukuda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
Low Nox Combustion ◽  
System 2

There is a strong demand for efficient and clean power-generating systems to meet recent energy-saving requirements and environmental regulations. A combined cycle power plant is one of the best solutions to the above [1]. Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., have jointly developed three key technologies for a next-generation 1500°C class gas turbine. The three key technologies consist of: (1) high-temperature low-NOx combustion system. (2) row 1 turbine vane and blade with advanced cooling schemes, and (3) advanced heat-resistant materials; (2) and (3) were verified by HTDU (High Temperature Demonstration Unit). This paper describes the results of the above-mentioned six-year joint development.

Final Report of the Key Technology Development Program for a Next Generation High Temperature Gas Turbine

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sato ◽  
Y. Kobayashi ◽  
H. Matsuzaki ◽  
S. Aoki ◽  
Y. Tsukuda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
Low Nox Combustion ◽  
System 2

There is a strong demand for efficient and clean power generating systems to meet recent energy saving requirements and environmental regulations. A combined cycle power plant is one of the best solutions to the above. Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. have jointly developed three key technologies for a next generation 1,500°C class gas turbine. The three key technologies consist of (1) high temperature low NOx combustion system, (2) row I turbine vane and blade with advanced cooling schemes, and (3) advanced heat resistant materials, verified by HTDU (High Temperature Demonstration Unit). This paper describes the results of the above mentioned 6 year joint development.

scholarly journals The status of Elateridae (Coleoptera) in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Malsawmdawngzuali Tara
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Larval Stage ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Insect Diversity ◽  
Click Beetles ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Faunal Diversity ◽  
Actual Field

Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. It is estimated that a quarter of all described species in the world belongs to this order. The family Elateridae or click beetles is the ninth-largest family under this order. Wireworms are the larval stage of this family and they play a role in the ecosystem as they are omnivorous and act as pests. There are over 800 species of elaterids recorded from the Indian Subcontinent under eight subfamilies. India is rich in floral and faunal diversity and insect diversity in particular constitute about 6% of all identified insects in the world with a large number being endemic species. But in contrast to its extreme species richness, there is comparatively very little knowledge about this family of beetles when compared to other families. And as such, there is still a lot of potential to study its ecology and diversity. It is also because of this same reason that review of the status of the elaterid family is being done as a prequel to the actual field study.

scholarly journals Gut microbiota: a new angle for traditional herbal medicine research

RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (30) ◽  
pp. 17457-17472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Longfei Lin ◽  
Liyu Luo ◽  
Ming Zhong ◽  
Tanggui Xie ◽  
Yuling Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Traditional Herbal Medicine ◽  
Medicine Research

Traditional Herbal Medicine (THM) has been used for thousands of years, and is popular worldwide due to its effectiveness in a variety of diseases.

Trend analysis of Covid-19 cases in Indian subcontinent: Prediction comparison and psycho-social interventions

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Das ◽  
Anjana Bhattacharjee
Keyword(s):  
Trend Analysis ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) which started in December, last year has claimed thousands of life around the world. Utilizing the existing COVID-19 database, this article attempted to compare the status of infection cases and death of the four significantly affected nations of Indian subcontinent (ISC): Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Pakistan with the top 4 affected nations of the world, today. This article is also an attempt to conduct a trend analysis to predict the upcoming cases in exclusively the ISC countries. The results suggest that Pakistan and India should be well prepared in the coming one month. Finally, the needs of psychosocial support and the psychotherapeutic interventions were elucidated to help preserve the mental health of the people in this hour of crisis.

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